1G DAY, JUNE 23, 1961 BUSIN “100 Mty Labor ian States and called eV : purer Labor Coun- by, S June 20 meeting, Sten @nimous ap y f proval to a yt of emitted by Division Pring W Street Railwaymen’s ‘ Ich read as follows: Late embers feel that our bution “2 Make its best con- Sts by n ce peace and pro- of Oa goecoming a mem- Be letter then goes on to . €ditorial from the yeh °pposing Canadian ‘ . in O.A.S. which Bogttess sh Canadian Labor ’ lion Suld reconsider its pag Yespect to O.A‘S. f£ send tagged by the il ot atin American: as y © American kite Pursuing an. inde- 7 °8ress in the setabion vei appear in a Noe, 30, in & Day edition on| Hx, With Will be a 12-page) a Org Many interesting ders for bundles ty ® Placed early, R, T Bs Can ake . Possible the pre- Stay Out of OAS Says mien trade unionists have placed themselves in N to Canadian participation in the Organization of ® reconsider its position of support for O.A.S. Slicy in the interest! Council on the Canadian Labor Con- America’s, win for our coun- try a respect we have not so far enjoyed.” VLC also passed a motion from the Street Railwaymen’s Union addressed to the New Party convention asking the New Party to record itself for publicly-owned transportation systems in all Canadian cities. Reports from unions show- ed a number of strike situa- tions shaping up in some of the service trades.. Bartenders both in Vancouver and New Westminster are preparing to! hit the bricks within the next few weeks having voted 359 to 2 to. reject a concilliation board award in Vancouver. Wholesale Retail Union re- ST RIBUNE "VANCOUVER, B.C. This is the central tact which emerges from the welter of proposals contained in the bud- get speech. It offers nothing for Can- ada’s working people. There is no relief from the heavy. bur- den of armaments costs. Noth- ing for hard-pressed taxpayers. There is no concrete provision for tackling the serious unem- ployment problem. Even: the increase in old-age pensions mooted last week in some press reports did not mater: jialize. The key taal advanced in the budget calls for de- preciation of the Canadian dollar. Total effect of this measure will be to increase the cost of living for Canad- jians. Under this plan Canada will be able to sell its natural re- source products more cheaply abroad while paying more for imports. This will particularly benefit U.S. financial inter- ests who control the major raw material industries in Canada. They will now be in a posi- tion to make profits in both directions: by selling them- selves raw materials produced in Canada cheaper, and charg- ing more for manufactured goods exported back into Canada made from Canadian raw materials. Not only will U.S. financial ports a critical situation shap- ing up with the Taylor Pear-| son and Carson Co. Ltd. Oil Atomic and Chemical Union| sees. the possibility of strike| action with at least one major oil company, maybe more. Delegates were shocked in 8 x i, Special issue) Pa, ion of the PT! wages ge Paper, g' the closing. minutes of the! council when a delegate from | the Amalgamated Clothing | Workers "Union hit the .floor 'and anounced that there were at least 2,000 workers in gar- ment sweat shops in Vancou- ver working for wages of 40c and: 60c an hour. He compared this to minimum garment of 88c an hour in Quebec, 5000 Voies or Greenwell Donald Greenwell, parks board candidate in Vancou- ver’s Wednesday by-election, polled 5,283 votes, running third -in a field of six candi- dates. Long associated with com- munity affairs, Greenwell was the only candidate who con- ducted a_ strong campaign against the purchase of Shaughnessy Golf Course from the CPR for a fabulous price. Voters favored sale of the airport by 30,660 to 10,331. SRIES SHIFT BIGGER LOAD ON PEOPLE By MAURICE RUSH | Finance Minister Fleming’s budget brought down Tuesday night openly favors big business and further shifts the burden of growing economic crisis on to the backs of the working people, Pa 8 benefit in this way. They also stand to make a killing on bonds held by all levels of government in Can- ada. An example of this is the city of Vancouver which sold $50 million worth of bonds on the New York money mar- ket, repayable in U.S. dollars. It will cost city taxpayers $25,000 for each one cent the Canadian dollar drops below the American. The day after the budget was brought down the Canadian dollar in New York dropped to 97 cents. If it stays at that point, and doesn’t drop further, city homeowners will have to pay U.S. coupon clippers another $75,000 to meet payments on bonded indebtedness. When this is multiplied many times over for every level of government in Canada which sold bonds on the U.S. money market, one gets a stag- gering picture of the huge killing which Wall St. inter- ests will make from the new Tory budget. The net effect on taxpayers will be to boost taxes at every level while at the same time paying more for goods brought into Canada which come large- ly from the U.S. Another feature of the new budget favoring big business is the outright gift of millions of dollars which large corpora- tions will be able to deduct from taxes for depreciation and capital. costs. Much more beneficial to the economy would have been measures to increase- the people’s purchasing power which would stimulate the Canadian market by increas- ‘ing consumption. (See editorial page 4). ; SOMETHING NEW IN PICKETING. Picture on the left shows one of the striking construction workers in Toronto who have been waging a militant fight for union con- ditions. He carries a question mark to avoid prosecution under Ontario’s anti-labor laws. Right, a Royal York worker takes her place on a highway entering Toronto to tell travellers to keep away from the strike-bound CPR. hotel.